1810-1815, Autobiographies & Biographies, Barking Exercise, Christians/Disciples of Christ, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Other Bodily Exercises & General References
“[N]ow I left for cincinati again and on my way heard of the New light Presbytarians…and heard all sort of bad reports a bout them they said that…they would fall and lay for hours and…others jerk backwards and forwards with somuch force that a ladys hair wold crack like a wip….”
1816-1860, American Antiquarian Society, Anonymous/Unknown, Barking Exercise, Dancing Exercise, Dreams, Trances & Visions, Falling Exercise, Laughing Exercise, Magazines & Newspapers, Other Bodily Exercises & General References, Other/Unknown
“I have frequently thought that a history of the singular exercises, called the “Jirks,” and other strange operations which affected the subjects of the great Kentucky Revival, would be interesting to my readers….”
